Enterline Post Office, 1908
The address side of a picture post card mailed from the post office at Enterline, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on 10 January 1908, and received the same day at the post […]
Elizabethville – Post Office, Eby Grocery & Eby Home
An un-cropped copy of the original photograph of the Samuel Eby Grocery Story, the Eby Home, and the Elizabethville Post Office, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The Eby store sold groceries, […]
Lykens Newspaper Reflects on the Election of Woman Governor of Texas, 1924
An interesting editorial appeared in the Lykens Standard of 5 September 1924 which commented with some skepticism on the election of an anti-Ku Klux Klan, woman governor in the state […]
Thomas Garfield Schell (1880-1948) – Burgess of Tower City
FUNERAL HELD MONDAY FOR TOWER CITY BURGESS Thomas G. Schell, Burgess of Tower City the past twelve years, died last Thursday at the age of 67 years. Survivors are his […]
Berrysburg Borough Launches Web Site, 2017
An announcement has come from Lahn Kopp of the Berrysburg Borough Council, Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, that a new web site, Berrysburg.org, was launched in 2017. The site has pages […]
Gratz Fire of 1924 – Harry Smith Denounces Townspeople for Short-Sightedness
In the early morning hours of 3 November 1924, a disastrous fire swept through the center of Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The perfect storm of the failure of the borough […]
Harvey S. Matter (1891-1948) – Clerk in County Quarter Sessions Court
HARVEY S. MATTER PASSED AWAY WEDNESDAY Harvey S. Matter, 57, Deputy Clerk in the Office of Dauphin County Clerk of Quarter Sessions Court, died in the Harrisburg Hospital about 5:30 […]
Statement on Election of 1928 by Imperial Wizard of Ku Klux Klan
In the presidential election of 1928, Governor Alfred E. Smith, the candidate of the Democratic Party who by faith was a Roman Catholic, was pitted against Herbert Hoover, the candidate […]